UK to trial Elon Musk’s satellite broadband equipment in remote locations
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Britain is to trial using low Earth orbit satellites to provide high-speed internet connections, with the initial sites supported by equipment supplied by Elon Musk's Starlink.
Britain is to trial using low Earth orbit satellites to provide high-speed internet connections to remote homes and businesses, with the initial sites supported by equipment supplied by Elon Musk's Starlink system. The government said on Wednesday it would start with Starlink "given the readiness and availability of its technology". It said it was also holding discussions with other providers such as British satellite company OneWeb. Musk's SpaceX rocket company activated Starlink, a largely consumer-based service with hundreds of thousands of internet users, over Ukraine after Russia's invasion in ...